Not to be a negative Nellie but wasnt this supposed to be terribly easy. I feel like I am fighting this install every step of the way. WinMCE is a matter of installing the OS and pressing the appilcation to start it. Then you are done.

This is a matter of installing the OS, then running the installer, watching a lot of things fail or not work, booting to a black screen, finding the admin url and wading through the thousands fo menus to find "change resolution", tweaking to find right resolution for LCD monitor.....

and so on.

This looks fantastic and I want it to work due to the massive list of features, but it hardly seems "easy".

The installation guide shows screen by screen what you should see. If you don't, something went terribly wrong. I'm puzzled by "had to wade through menus to change the resolution". AFter installing LMCE, on the first reboot, you should always see the 'av wizard', which let's you pick the resolution. You shouldn't ever dig through menus since that's what the av wizard does. What menus are you digging through, btw? LMCE or Ubuntu?

Without digging in more I can't be sure, but so far this is always caused by trying to use UI2 with a video card (or driver actually) that doesn't handle XDamage extensions. That's why I always stick to nVidia 6xxx and higher and I've tried this on many nVidia systems and have never had it not work.

Hi just done an install had a very similar experiance - took my pc (which had been runinng Microsoft Media Center just fine). Installed LinuxMCE, watched somethings fail to install, got bored, install completed but in the mean time Ubuntu lost all its the menus on the tool bar, then rebooted to a blank screen... now stuck. Is there any simple to move to the next stage?Cheers